Spent 3 hours researching lag fixes.

[Oldbastage]

40 hours in and game has become nearly unplayable with lag. As the title says spent 3ish hours trying to find a fix. Most solutions are months old and none seem to work. Am I missing something? Love the game btw.

[Demolition414]

The game isn't optimised to its full extent due to game engine limitations, the devs are hoping to upgrade there game engine so it will hopefully give better performance, a powerful rig will cause less lag.

[Oldbastage]

Thank you for the answer and I have a solid rig. So it sounds like there's nothing to be done but wait on the devs. That's unfortunate.

[Demolition414]

The only other option for a lag fix is to lower your screen res and reduce graphics, keep quality and water on high, but reduce or turn off stuff like screen space reflections and ambient occlusion. I know you shouldn't have to but dropping my res down to a lower level (just above 720p), gave me about 15 FPS more.

[kgptzac]

What's causing the lag? I really haven't experienced any myself, so I'm assuming that lags happens at specific locations, or if you build too much stuff in your base or something?

[Oldbastage]

Not sure I'm new to the game got a small base and 4 lockers.Two structures 1 multipurpose room with bio gen, radio, fabricator first aid couple more tools not much else. Second room is moonpool nothing in it but the upgrade station. Maybe its whats in the lockers? I don't know.Have a seamoth and an empty cyclops. I've made every in game and out of game adjustment I can. Just tried playing again and it was really bad. Played the first 30hours or so with everythng set to high little to no difficulty. The lag isn't limited by location.

[miklkit]

I've been trying different settings in win10 plus swapping drivers and am starting to think it is the latest GPU drivers causing this stuttering.

[Oldbastage]

Updated to the new amd driver that was supposed to have a Subnautica fix released I belive 6/18. Didn't help at all. I'll see if I can find a stable legacy driver and report back.

[LordDeimosIV]

It's the base. I experinced the same thing before the game launched. I built a base and my fps tanked immidiately. From what i recall the game was rendering my base at full lod (level of detail) no matter where i was. It was also rendering stuff that was in my base as well (alien containment being the worst offender). I ended up abandoning the save becuase the lag was just too unbearable. I don't know if this was fixed for release since i haven't played that far in the full release.

[Oldbastage]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von LordDeimosIV:

It's the base. I experinced the same thing before the game launched. I built a base and my fps tanked immidiately. From what i recall the game was rendering my base at full lod (level of detail) no matter where i was. It was also rendering stuff that was in my base as well. I ended up abandoning the save becuase the lag was just too unbearable. I don't know if this was fixed for release since i haven't played that far in the full release.

I just deleted my save and started over no base as of yet and game is running smooth on high settings. I think you're onto it.

[PrimeSonic]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Oldbastage:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von LordDeimosIV:

It's the base. I experinced the same thing before the game launched. I built a base and my fps tanked immidiately. From what i recall the game was rendering my base at full lod (level of detail) no matter where i was. It was also rendering stuff that was in my base as well. I ended up abandoning the save becuase the lag was just too unbearable. I don't know if this was fixed for release since i haven't played that far in the full release.

I just deleted my save and started over no base as of yet and game is running smooth on high settings. I think you're onto it.

Sadly, I think this is the case.

The save files I had with giant sprawling bases I've also had to abandon.

And yet, the save files where I used my Cyclops as my only base ran smooth from start to finish.

[Oldbastage]

I was wondering about using the cyclops as a base until this gets fixed. Good to know thank you. Seems they'd be a little more concerned about this issue in a game where base building is a huge part of the game.

[PrimeSonic]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Oldbastage:

I was wondering about using the cyclops as a base until this gets fixed. Good to know thank you. Seems they'd be a little more concerned about this issue in a game where base building is a huge part of the game.

If you do go that route, there's a few nice mods to help get everything you need from a base into the Cyclops.